Hi I am a 38 yr old male
I took clindamyacin for 10 days for a tooth infection and developed diarrhea a couple of days later, a few days after I had mild abdominal pain. The diarrhea wasnt watery or bloody and was once a day. On Thursday (yesterday)I went to the doctor who prescribed flagyl 500mg 3 times a day for what he thought was a bowel infection and requested a stool sample.I took 2 on that day but developed numbness in my right big toe and felt generally unwell. I stopped taking the med's but am not sure that is such a good idea! I have no abdominal pain, (though i have nausea),my stools are not watery and constant and this morning at 1130 my temp was 97.7 I was eating well and felt fine on the clinda (though I'm not doing so well now), should I wait at least until the tests come back next week to start antibiotics or should I just bite the bullet with the flagyl and try to head off a potentially serious disease before it gets worse.
Many thanks